TO THE 10TH ARMY
D. I. EFREMOV

By cipher
Tsaritsyn
To the Member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 10th
Efremov

The matter concerned absolutely nothing to do with illegal organizations and certainly nothing to do with abandoning him*.

I am astonished that such a strange idea could have entered your head. The matter concerned total mobilization of all Tsaritsyn workers and all methods of revolutionary, most energetic warfare with especially severe cleansing of the rear. Telegraph what exactly emergency measures you are taking.

Lenin

Written June 6, 1919

First published in 1942

in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript